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'ion' in french and english
Somebody told me that every word that ends in 'ion' is the same in english and french eg 'introspection, amalgamation, impersonation' etc etc, is this true/
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Mostly yes, although I guess that there are numerous exceptions. This is a version of an anecdote which I read about ages ago. A Portuguese soldier in WW2 won a bet by proving that he could teach a thousand words of Portuguese to a French soldier in leess than a minute. His answer was that every French word ending in "-tion" is the same in Portuguese except with "-ção" instead of "-tion". The same would be true of Italian -zione, Spanish -cion, Esperanto -cio etc. but with numerous euphonic and orthographical changes.
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